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The other good way is to loop to an anti-spin or a pips punch blocker and learn to reloop against the lower spin ball or dead ball. Relooping against a chop blocker is also a good way to improve your ability to loop the backspin ball.

It's mostly the maturity of the player as a whole, but equipment does help once you know what you need to solve for and you have an idea of what tradeoffs you have to make. The thing about equipment is that you need to think through the range of shots you need to and want to play and how the...

I know a 2200 Indian player, uses Mark V on a Gergely on his forehand... One of the spinniest forehands you will see. He didn't enjoy playing me last year so he didn't play me this year...

You learn to loop those balls. It is actually easier to kill a no spin ball than it is a topspin ball because the stroke is all yours, you just need to know in advance it is a no spin ball and have the right stroke for the job. The real issue is whether you are really generating or borrowing...

I don't try to dissuade fanbois, I let them find out the hard truth on their own. H3 is an advanced rubber.

Tacky rubber is just slow and less spinny. There can be advantages to this (potentially more control especially close to the table and on pushes), but there are also disadvantages (harder to make high spin offensive shots). It's unlikely you will ever be able to put in the effort required to...

Yes. The reason is called "more spin". Another good reason is better quality control, but it depends on where you want your game to go.

There is truth to this, but sometimes, high level junk balls don't come at you the same way lower level junk balls do. Lower level ones tend to look like good stroke but from a player who doesn't make consistently good contact with the ball if at all. So a better player like Boogar might read...

Depending on how you want to play and how much money you have, the sooner you leave Chinese tacky rubbers behind the better. Obviously, your budget is the key.

It's easier to think this way in Finland than in the US... just be warned.

It is true in an important sense. After all, everyone has gaps in what they can read and adjust to, even Ma Long. And the sooner you accept your responsibility to read and adjust your stroke to the incoming ball, the further you will get and the faster you will get there. That is why playing...

Great one-two serving combination from Wang (Eugene) Zhen. youtu.be/_dGKgfoHfaw?t=504 BTW, on the topic of weaker players beating stronger players or players playing better against better players and worse against even weaker players - I suspect the real reason why Boogar played supposedly...

Spot on, and this supposedly weak player won it all. I have played many matches as a blocker where players would complain about losing to a player like myself who supposedly had no strokes. It's one thing to say that when judging a player's technique but another thing to say that when judging...

I find that whenever I rewatch a match that I thought I played badly, this is never true. The real issue is either that I was tired or that I had issues reading the player. Still need to see you use excess power.

Thanks - figured it out. I had them the wrong way round. Have taken the MX-P off the Hannibal and it is the one I am currently leaning towards though it is quite possible that I haven't given the Kanaph a real chance.

My backspin serve is now heavy enough that on the club floor, I can double bounce it short and if it comes off the table after that, it still has enough spin to come back to where I am standing. I did it three times in a row. Now I know I am getting to the point where it is no longer an...

Boogar, What does playing terrible mean to you?

So it's against the rules because someone just had a silly idea at the ITTF. Shame on them!

Choing in a tight match is part of life - no apologies for that. I actually declined to play my next opponent initially after the match. Then I came to my senses and played my matches.

I behaved embarrassingly after this match - I almost wanted to go home and not play again that night... Very immature...